Textbox
Guide for using textbox in your applications
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Guide for using textbox in your applications
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This guide will show how to use textbox in your applications. See how easy it is to drag and drop textbox onto your forms and connect them to your business logic. textbox can be modified, styled and even changed at runtime.
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Textbox, like all components, have properties which can be modified at design-time to set the appearance and behavior of the component. Select the textbox in the to see a list of properties in the . Below are some common properties and how to set them at design-time.
The text displayed inside the textbox can be modified by setting its property. This will just be plain text which will be shown as an instruction on what you can do within the textbox. When you insert a value in the textbox the placeholderText will disappear and your inserted text will take it's place. For more options open the .
TextBox, like many components, can display tooltip messages when a user hovers their cursor. Most often, this will just be plain text that describes what will happen on-click. In this case, just enter the value into the editor. For more options open the .
Like all components, a textbox can be styled using themes, variants and raw CSS. To apply any available style class, simply enter one or more space-delimited values for the styleClass property.
Like most components, textbox have events, which allow you to execute some logic when something happens in the UI. Of course, the most common event for a textbox is the onDataChange event, which is triggered when the textbox is clicked or the user hits the Enter key while the textbox has focus.
textbox, like many components, can be modified at runtime through code. Below are a few examples of controlling a textbox from code.
You can easily change the enabled state of a textbox at runtime.
You can easily change the visible state of a textbox at runtime.
Like most components, a textbox has API methods which can be called from code. Below is an example of common API calls.
You can easily add a style class to a textbox using the addStyleClass method.
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To Handle the event, double-click the value for the onDataChange property in the . You will see the . You'll have the option select an existing Method or create a new Method. The method will be called when the TextBox's onDataChange event is fired and the object will be passed to it.
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You can easily give keyboard focus to a textbox using the method.